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@@ -213,6 +213,12 @@ This change makes it easier to write Python 2/3 compatible code using
``from __future__ import unicode_literals``, which previously would cause
string literal field names to raise a TypeError in Python 2.
+Comparison ufuncs accept ``dtype=object``, overriding the default ``bool``
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+This allows object arrays of symbolic types, which override ``==`` and other
+operators to return expressions, to be compared elementwise with
+``np.equal(a, b, dtype=object)``.
+
``sort`` functions accept ``kind='stable'``
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Up until now, to perform a stable sort on the data, the user must do::